internetarchive / internetarchive/openlibrary

UI lacks a way to correct author links from edition records

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Affects: Librarians Lead: @seabelis Needs: Triage Type: Bug
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Description

The UI permits author link corrections on work records only. Correcting those links fails to correct the corresponding link on editions, so those editions remain nonsensically linked to the wrong author record and appear as such in solr indexing. This makes author disambiguation fruitless.

### Evidence / Screenshot (if possible)
Discussed at #2625

Changing Austin to Jon W Austin here:
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL13377550M/Heart_and_Lung_Machine_and_Related_Technologies_of_Open_Heart_Surgery?_compare=Compare&b=2&a=1&m=diff

leaves https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24560932W.json
and https://openlibrary.org/books/OL13377550M.json
with different author linkages when they should agree.

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- **Environment (prod/dev/local)?** prod

### Proposal & Constraints

1. When work record’s author link changes from OL1A to OL2A, either
a)make the same change on every edition record or
b)simply remove OL1A from edition records.
2. On the edition edit page, add a boxed-x delete widget beside each displayed author
3. Hilight or links that differ between work and edition records
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